Are you an early career scientist preparing to present your research
at the DPS 48/EPSC 11 meeting? Are you nervous? Are you looking for
advice? Join others like you to receive feedback from seasoned
presenters! Participants in the Early Career Presenters Review have
the opportunity to present their DPS 48/EPSC 11 oral or poster
presentation and receive feedback before presenting during the
regular meeting. In addition to presenting their research,
participants have the opportunity to network with their peers and
future colleagues. The review will be held Sunday, October 16
from 1-5pm in Conference Building C107. Register at:

The deadline to register is 5:00pm Central Time, October 12, 2016.
Registration is limited to 20 presenters. Scientists wishing to
participate by providing feedback to the early career presenters
should contact Andy Shaner at shaner@lpi.usra.edu[8].

The Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small
Bodies (DAP-2017) workshop will be held at LASP in Boulder, Colorado on
January 11-13, 2017. The workshop will be a forum to (i) discuss
current understanding of the surface environment of the Moon, the moons
of Mars, and comets and asteroids, (ii) share new results from past and
ongoing missions to airless bodies and comets, and (iii) describe
expectations for planned upcoming missions to airless bodies and
comets. The meeting web site is hosted at:

DAP-2017 is a NASA/SSERVI follow up on two previous NASA/NLSI-SSERVI
workshops, LDAP-2010 and DAP-2012. Contributions to LDAP-2010 and
DAP-2012 were published in special issues of Planetary and Space
Sciences. A similar volume is planned to report the contributions to
DAP-2017.

The workshop is hosted by M. Horanyi and A. Stern, and supported by
NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI):
Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres, and Cosmic Dust
(IMPACT), the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), and
the Center for Integrated Plasma Studies (CIPS) of the University of
Colorado.

* Mission data revealing ices and their properties, composition,
geological context and history in the Outer Solar System (Rings,
icy moons, KBOs and Kuiper Belt), Asteroid Belt, Mars (polar
caps, ground ice) or well within the snow line (Mercury, Moon).

* The astrobiological potential of ices and their role and transport
during the Solar System evolution- including the connection to the
interstellar medium, proto-solar nebulae, icy giants and
planetesimals formation.

Abstract submission deadline: November 15th
Session program available: November 29th

Note that there may be the possibility to include your contribution
into a special workshop publication issue.

Sponsorship for students, in the form of lump sum payment,
will be available, upon review of the submitted abstract
by the Science Organizing Committee. See details at:

The first release of the Gaia data has been made publicly available
on September 14, 2016. Besides a catalogue of 1.1 billion source
positions and broad-band G-magnitudes, this DR1 also includes the
positions, G-magnitudes, parallaxes, proper motions for 2 million
stars in common between the Tycho-2 Catalogue and Gaia (TGAS). Light
curves for 3194 Cepheids and RR Lyrae are also part of the release
as well as a special astrometric solution for 2152 ICRF quasars.

The goal of this IAU symposium is to ensure the world-wide sharing of
the Gaia mission results that will cover the following topics:
astrometry and reference frames, Milky Way galaxy and stellar physics
and the Solar system bodies.

Presentations on all aspects of Venus science and technology are
solicited. Presentations on upcoming Venus mission opportunities
and high-temperature operations are of particular interest. Please
email your title, a short summary, preference for oral or poster
presentation to Bob Grimm grimm@boulder.swri.edu[19], and Tommy
Thompson, twthompson@jpl.nasa.gov[20], by October 28th. Posting of the
full program is anticipated in early November.

If you'll be attending in person and haven't done so already, please
enter your name on the Meeting Registration/Intent to Attend Form
on the VEXAG Web-Site:

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D) RESEARCH POSITION AT THE SWEDISH INSTITUTE

OF SPACE PHYSICS

The Solar System Physics and Space Technology research programme at
the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) invites applications
for a temporary research position in Space Physics, related to the
ESA Rosetta mission to comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Applications
are invited both for a 2-year post-doc position and for shorter
periods for senior guest scientists.

The advertised position is a research position for studies of the
cometary plasma environment and its interaction with the solar wind
primarily using ion data from the Ion Composition Analyzer on board
Rosetta but also using data from the other instruments that form the
Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC).

Previous experience of working with plasma and/or particle data from
space missions is required. The position, placed in Kiruna, is
funded by the Swedish Research Council. Post-doc candidates should
have completed a PhD during 2013 or later. Candidates planning to
obtain their PhD degree no later than January 2017 can also apply.
A post-doc candidate should not currently be an active researcher
at IRF.